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Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

I’m not saying an earlier embracement of PWAs would have made some of this lack of native VisionOS apps story moot but I’m not *not* saying it. Safari 17 is a lot better with PWAs than the past but devs haven’t even seen Safari or PWAs as a potential solution for years and years now. And that isn’t the devs fault.

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

film_girl ("Christina Warren") wrote:

Essential reading from @brentsimmons https://inessential.com/2024/01/17/corporations_are_not_to_be_loved

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

rockerest@social.rdl.ph ("Thomas Randolph :thomas:") wrote:

Every company will own a goose, know the story of the goose that laid the golden eggs, and still without hesitation say "but if we cut the goose open now we will probably get more of the golden eggs right now and then this line that tracks our gold will go up right now."

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Entertained that *even Gruber* had to say something about the ultra-aggressive shenanigans towards reasonable competition that Apple has engaged in, lo these many years:

https://daringfireball.net/2024/01/coming_to_grips_with_apples_seemingly_unshakable_sense_of_app_store_entitlement#:~:text=My%20argument%20remains,Big%2DTech%E2%80%9D%20hunt.

This, from almost two years ago, and covered Apple doing substantially the same shit in The Low Countries:

https://infrequently.org/2022/02/minimum-standards/

It's always been indefensible. And yet Gruber soldiers on, assuming that Apple is always in the right, and if not, is only temporarily confused.

Reblogged by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):

Migueldeicaza ("Miguel de Icaza") wrote:

Brian Cantrill (@bcantrill): things I learned the hard way:

https://speakerdeck.com/bcantrill/things-i-learned-the-hard-way

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

mfw ChatGPT is too loquacious

Attachments:

• Simpsons outtake from "The Front" in which Roger Meyers Jr. denigrates Itchy and Scratchy's overly academic writers

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

“He’s behind me, isn’t he.”
“Yep.”
“Is he making that stupid face?”
“Yep.”

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• A dog faces the camera as a second crouches behind making a face. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

UncleDuke1969@universeodon.com ("Uncle Duke") wrote:

yet another student using CatGPT to do their schoolwork

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• Young child and cat jointly holding a pencil, writing in a notebook at a desk. The cat looks put out. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

hrheingold ("Howard Rheingold") wrote:

psychic fields and co-learning in the classroom

#learning #education #consciousness #attention

https://www.patreon.com/posts/psychic-fields-96631160

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

🤦🏻‍♀️ “#Netanyahu says he has informed the US that he opposes the establishment of a Palestinian state as part of any postwar scenario.

The announcement on Thurs exposed the deep divisions that have emerged between the close allies three months into Israel’s war against #Gaza’s #Hamas rulers.

US has called on #Israel to scale back its offensive and said that the establishment of a #Palestinian state should be part of the “day after.”

https://apnews.com/article/73d552c6e73e0dc3783a0a11b2b5f67d

Reblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):

chockenberry ("Craig Hockenberry") wrote:

@film_girl Apple's steadfast refusal to back down on anti-steering is burning a lot of bridges at all levels of the developer community.

Reap what you sow.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

baldur@toot.cafe ("Baldur Bjarnason") wrote:

“Death should be the end – Bigmouth Strikes Again: Carrie Marshall’s blog” http://www.bigmouthstrikesagain.com/2024/01/death-should-be-the-end/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

"Why we need Shortwave 2.0" https://issuu.com/futurepublishing/docs/rwm1260.digital_ns?fr=sNTMzMjY4ODEzOTk

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• da4dbd65c6d4fc75.png (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

selenalarson ("Selena Larson") wrote:

Great news, these fees just exist to punish poor people for being poor. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/17/success/bank-overdraft-fees-cfpb/index.html

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

time for another walk

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

'A public prosecutor in Ecuador who was leading an investigation into the dramatic siege of a television station has been assassinated in Guayaquil.

Cesar Suarez, who launched the high-profile investigation of organised transnational crime, was shot while driving a vehicle in Guayaquil, considered the most dangerous city in Ecuador.'

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ecuador-prosecutor-assasination-guayaquil-b2480573.html

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

w7voa@journa.host ("Steve Herman") wrote:

US forces this morning took out a couple of additional Houthi anti-ship missiles, according NSC spokesman John Kirby who is speaking to reporters during an Air Force One flight.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

scottjehl@mstdn.social ("Scott Jehl") wrote:

As someone who has audited many, many sites for performance and usability, React sites have long been a major outlier. The fragile, client-dependent patterns that the tooling encouraged early-on may not be the chosen path for folks in the know anymore, but they made a lasting impact and continue to be visible in the most popular sites on the web.

Most of the sites in this audit I did for WPT were that slow **because of** the React delivery patterns they used. https://blog.webpagetest.org/posts/will-html-content-make-site-faster/

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

luckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:

A protestor just held up a sign saying "MASKS SAVE LIVES" in front of unmasked Senators at today's Long COVID hearing!

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• Person holding a sign that says "MASKS SAVE LIVES" at Senate Long COVID hearing (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

georgetakei@universeodon.com ("George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽") wrote:

This will be a huge help, especially to low-income Americans. Well done, Joe!

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• Screenshot of a social post by More Perfect Union ('@MorePerfectUS' on the social platform 'X'). The post says: 'BREAKING: The Biden administration is ending bank overdraft fees as we know them. Under a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau rule, overdraft fees at large banks will be strictly regulated and capped as low as $3. Low-income Americans will save billions.' (remote)

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

using any excuse to gut social services

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OgFCicNgapHJjDO0tvpXdK_P9o20R8E5/view

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

whitedove@pixelfed.social ("White Dove") wrote:

Bring Them Home Now

Seen in Jerusalem.
@RadicalGraffiti@todon.eu

—
@israel@a.gup.pe @palestine@a.gup.pe #Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Hamas #IsraelHamasWar #Graffiti #BringThemHome #BringThemHomeNow

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• A graffiti that reads: “BRING THEM HOME NOW”. Trees behind. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

SidFudd@4bear.com ("Taylor Jessen") wrote:

Peter "P.D.Q. Bach" Schickele dead at 88
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/arts/music/peter-schickele-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Ok0.zhEs.H5fFKTSlW24R&smid=em-share
#EchoSonataForTwoUnfriendlyGroupsOfInstruments
#BlackForestBluegrass

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

"only peace can bring us safety" - standing-together.org [a Palestinian-Israeli organization working together for Israeli-Palestinian Peace]

pls fwd as you think appropriate

jeffs
--

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-gji27q9Prrf5qWoIzvScOTBAma02Y8w/view

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

Ok I owe Safari an apology. The bug I was referring to has actually been fixed for a good while now, and I just didn't realize it.

In addition, most of the other Safari color issues I've run into recently, I can't seem to reproduce currently.

I'll eat my hat on this one. Good job, team.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Danger, danger, danger! Students might THINK!

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/18/i-almost-forgot-how-dangerous-philosophy-is/

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• THERE ARE NO DANGEROUS THOUGHTS; THINKING ITSELF IS DANGEROUS. (remote)

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

After they erase sociology, what's next? Psychology, political science, biology?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/01/18/then-they-came-for-the-sociology-departments-but-i-was-not-a-sociologist/

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• 56c507cdf11d028b.png (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

Little1Lost@layer8.space wrote:

@stux i followed my intrusive thought

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• The posted picture of Washy in a bag. This edit has eyes on the bag so that it looks like Washi is getting eaten by a backpack monster. (remote)

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

selzero@syzito.xyz ("Deniz Opal") wrote:

I'm not going to take a picture of him, but dude in this coffee shop has positioned himself against a wall, blue tacked some images on the wall behind him to presumably make it look like his office, and has a Zoom meeting going on in an iPad while playing an MMO on his laptop and eating cake.

Well played geezer. Well played.

Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

w3c@w3c.social ("World Wide Web Consortium") wrote:

W3C tech in the news:
"WebAuthn, short for Web Authentication, is a web standard developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and the FIDO Alliance. It aims to revolutionize the way we authenticate ourselves online by providing a secure and passwordless alternative"
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/01/ditch-the-passwords-discover-the-magic-of-webauthn-and-passkeys/